Brooke MACKALL

Brooke Mackall, Sr., a son of Leonard Mackall and Catherine Beall, owned one of the most beautiful places in the District, situated on the Heights of Georgetown. The house was built by Mr. Beverly, and resided in by John C. Calhoun, for sixteen years, while Secretary of War. This same place was afterwards bought by Mr. Edward M. Linthicum, for eleven thousand dollars; part of this property is now owned by Mr. Blount, and is known as ''Monterey.'' The Washington Home for Incurables stands on part of the original tract. James Elvertson's heautiful grounds adjoining "Monterey," and known as "Clifton," was bought from Benjamin Mackall for three thousand dollars.

Benjamin F. MACKALL

William Whann's only child, a daughter, Anna Marie, married Benjamin Mackall (the father of General William W. Mackall, of the Southern Confederacy). Her wedding gown is still in the possession of the family, and is beautifully made acording to the fashion of the day, of rich white satin, with little narrow skirt and baby waist, and around the bottom a deep lace, which to-day is as bright as when first made. Her father's wedding gift was a handsome house on the corner of Propect and Frederick streets, in Georgetown. Mr. Martineau, the minister from the Netherlands,afterward lived there.

General William Whann MACKALL

Brig. Gen Wm. W. Mackall was a native of Cecil county, MD He graduated at West Point in 1837 Participated in the Seminole War and was severely wounded in an ambush at New Inlet in February, 1839. Was promoted to first lieutenant. Served at Plattsburg, N. Y during the Canada border disturbance in 1840, and on the Maine frontier in 1841-42. In the Mexican war he gained the brevet of captain by gallant service at Monterey, and of major for his record at Contreeas and Churbusco. Served as adjutant-general on the staff of Generals Butler and Worth in 1846-48, and subsequently adjutant-general of the Western division and the Third Military Department. After two years as treasurer of the Soldiers' Home, he made a tour of inspection of the Florida and Gulf posts, and in l855 became adjutant- general of the Eastern Division and in 1856 of the Department of the Pacific. In May, 1861, he declined promotion to lieutenant colonel of staff, and then resigned to offer his services to the Confederate States. Was commissioned colonel and became adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. Promoted brigadier-general in 1862, and assigned to the command of the forces at Madrid Bend and Island No. 10, where he was captured with a large number of men, by the Federal army under Pope, on April 8th. Was subsequently exchanged. Gen. Beauregard wrote that he considered the services of Gen. Mackall as Division commander as indispensable, and urged his promotion, as did Gens R.E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph E. Johnston, Braxton Bragg and others. The personal relations between Gen. Mackall and President Davis had not been friendly, and the former did not receive the recognition at the hands of the Confederate government that his merits demanded. In December, 1862, he was given command of the District of the Gulf. Appointed chief-of-staff of Gen. Bragg in 1863. In November he was assigned to the command of the brigades lately under Gen. Herbert, in the department of Mississippi and Louisiana. In January, 1864, after being recommended for promotion by Gen. Polk, he returned to Johnston, then in command of the Army of the Tennessee, and was made chief of staff, serving throughout the famous campaign against Sherman from Dalton to Atlanta. After the removal of Johnston he was relieved of his staff duties at his own request, but continued to participate in the Confederate operations, and on April 20th, 1865, after the surrender of Lee's army, joined with Generals G. W. Smith and Howell Cobb in the surrender of Macon, Ga. After the war he resided at his beautiful home at Langley in this county, where he led a life of dignity and retirement. He was a member of the Aztec Club organized in the city of Mexico in 1847, and attended the banquet given the Club by Gen. Grant when President of the U.S. Few men made greater sacrifices, or served more valiantly and faithfully than Gen. Mackall, or were held in higher esteem by the leading military men of the Confederacy H died at his home in Langley, August 12, 1891, and was buried at Lewinsville.

General William Whann Mackall was a graduate of West Point in the same class with General Grant. General Mackall served with distinction throught the Mexican War, and was rewarded for this gallantry at Monterey, Contretas and Churubusco, and received a woound at Chapultepec, from which he never fully recovered. Later he served in the Civil War as Adjutant General to General Simon Buckner and was subsequently made a Brigader General. He was a member of the old Aztec Club, to which, shortly after the close of the Civil War, President Grant gave a reception at the White House. General Mackall wore his gray uniform, and was most cordially received by his old comrades, who held him in high esteem, many having ridden twelve miles and more over the old Virginia roads to recall pleasant remembrances of the days spent in Mexico.

Robert McGill MACKALL

MOSBY RAIDER DIES AT AGE OF 90 YEARS

Robert McGill Mackall Was Last Culpeper Survivor of That Band

RELATIVES LIVE HERE

Began His Career In Confederate Army By Joining Beauregard Rifles

Robert McGill Mackall, last survivor in Culpeper county, Virginia, of that famous band of Confederate cavalry raiders known in Civil War days as Mosby's Men, died Wednesday at his Culpeper home. He was 90 years old.

He is survived by a daughter, Miss Bessie Belt Mackall, of Culpeper, and a sister, Mrs. Benjamin Duval Palmer, of Baltimore. Two brothers, Charles and Richard L. Mackall, of Baltimore, died several years ago. There are numerous nieces, nephews and grandchildren in Baltimore, Washington and Culpeper county. One of the nephews is his namesake, R. McGill Mackall, Baltimore artist.

JOINS BEAUREGARD RIFLES

The recital of Mr. Mackall's experiences from l86l-65 reads like a section of the history of the Civil War. At the outbreak of hostilities Mr. Mackall, a native of old Georgtown, in the District of Columbia, joined the Beauregard Rifles, an independent company forming across the Potomac river at Alexandria to serve the Confederate cause.

It was with the Rifles that he received his baptism of fire in the first BattIe of Manassas, July 21, 1861.

In the fall the rifles disbanded and Mr. Mackall immediately enlisted in the Pelham Battery, a part of Gen J. E. B. Stuart's cavalry division. He was with his battery commander, Pelham, when the latter fell mortally wounded at Kelly's Ford, March 16, 1863.

GIVEN SIGNAL HONOR

In June of the same year the young cavalryman received a signal honor when he was chosen to carry the colors of the Pelham Battery in a review of Jeb Stuart's division by Gen. Robert E. Lee. This took place on the plains between Culpeper and Brandy Station, and the colors were a new set made and donated by the ladies of Charlottesville.

The next autumn Mr. Mackall joined Mosby's forces, and from then until the end of the war he was of Mosby's Men, spreading destruction to Union supply trains and encampments all through Fauquier, Prince William, Fairfax and a part of Culpeper counties. So well were the raiders known for their exploits that this part of Virginia came to be called "Mosby's Confederacy."

OUTLAWED BY GOVERNMENT

The war ended, Mr. Mackall, with other raiders, was outlawed by the Federal Government. He and his companions were sentenced to be hanged, but a month after the surrender at Appomattox all were paroled. With twenty of his companions, Mr. Mackall rode to Winchester to receive his parole.

Mr. Mackall was in nearly every important engagement in Virginia and in other battles as well, including Antietam and Gettysburg.

He was a son of Richard Levin and Ann Belt Mackall and was born February 5, l844. He was married in 1867 to Alice Ashby, of Baltimore, and the couple made their home at Olney, Montgomery county, Maryland. Mr. Mackall had lived for the last thirty years at Culpeper.

Funeral services will be held at 4 P.M. today at St Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, Culpeper.

Leonard Leopold MACKALL

L. L. MACKALL, BIBLIOGRAPHER, IS DEAD AT 58

Editor of Notes for Bibliophiles in Herald Tribune Had Been Ill 2 Months

“Sherlock Holmes of Books” Scorned Commercialism

FREDERICKSBURG, Va., May 19. --Leonard Leopold Mackall, president of the Bibliographical Society of America and editor of Notes for Bibliophiles in "Books", literary supplement of the New York Herald Tribune died in Mary Washington Hospital here at 9:50 am today after two months' illness. He was fifty-eight years old.

Mr. Mackall was brought here from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore several days ago. Funeral services will be held Friday in Savannah.

SCORNED "FAD PRICES"

Known to bibliophiles as "the Sherlock Holmes of books," Leonard Leopold Mackall, of Savannah, Ga., combined discerning scholarship and an incredibly retentive memory with the knack of knowing where to go to get what he wanted, He seemingly had the best of luck in finding it.

Mr, Mackall was scornful of some book collectors who built up the sensational aspects of a rare volume so that it could be knocked down at a "fad price". He believed that a rare book should be in the hands of a person most interested in it and informed about it; with the result that he gave away an average of 200 volumes a year. In spite of this generosity he had a l2,000 volume library of his own in Savannah. While others exploited valuable books, Mr. Mackall preferred to ferret out biblio-graphical treasures in obscure second-hand stores and buying them at prices which made his colleagues hold their breaths.

FOUND GIBBON FIRST EDITION

For example, the late Wymberley Jones De Renne, who built the Georgia Library bearing his name, searched for a quarter of a century for twenty rare books he particularly wanted for his collection. He had a list of the twenty printed and distributed to dealers thoughout the world with instructions to buy at any price. When Mr. Mackall, who from 1916 to 1918 was the librarian of the De Renne Georgia Library, saw the list he predicted he would have little trouble in locating every item on it. Within two years he had purchased every one of them and the highest single price he paid was $5.00.

In a musty book shop in Lausanne, Switzerland, his eye fell upon a copy of the first volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." That discovery was something in itself, for when the monumental work first came out it was published volume by volume.

The book had been Gibbon's personal copy and Mr. Mackall found in it the author's name and marginal notes in the historian's own handwriting. A novice might have feared that the book was spurious, but Mr. Mackall knew that Gibbon did his writing and had his library in Lausanne. He also know that William Beckford, wealthy English collector of the early nineteenth century, had bought the Gibbon library. The shippers, apparently, had overlooked this one book.

GAVE RARE FIND AWAY

Mr. Mackall bought the volume for $1.60. Then he could think of only one person who should have the book - John Bagnell Bury, regius professor of modern history of Cambridge University, who had devoted a lifetime to editing and annotating Gibbon.

Mr, Mackall never had met Professor Bury, but he knew the English professor's collection of Gibbon still lacked the first volume of the "Decline and Fall," So he sent the took to the professor, who was speechless at receiving such a gift from a total stranger. The professor died recently and Mr. Mackall received a letter from the widow saying that the first volume of "Decline and Fall" was being preserved in a glass case in the Cambridge Library.

Mr Mackall was a specialist on Goethe, southern United States history, and the history of medicine. He was a close friend of the late Sir William Osler. When Sir William died, Mr. Mackall became an executive of the Osler library and made a trip to England in connection with that post.

LIBRARIAN GETS SURPRISE

While there, he stopped at the reading room of the British Museum one day and asked to see a certain book on early American exploration. He was told by the librarian that the volune was so rare that it could not be brought out for handling-- even by a specialist. The aloof manner in which the man spoke piqued Mr. Mackall.

So the next day Mr. Mackall went to Oxford and, in a second-hand book store on High Street, found and bought for two shillings a copy of the volume on early American exploration. Twenty-four hours later, he was back in London and calmly showing the book to the chilly librarian, who, when he heard the price Mr. Mackall had paid for it, was too amazed to apologize.

On another occasion Mr. Mackall decided to solve a problem that bad long baffled German scholars - the Identity of the English poem which inspired Goethe to write "The Cheerful Traveler." The German poet had labeled his work “from the English,” but no one had been able to discover the original poem,

FINDS CLEW TO GOETHE WORK

Mr Mackall wan touring Scotland with his brother, Lawton, when he decided to solve the Goethe riddle. He believed Edinburgh would have the key to the puzzle. They arrived In the city on Saturday night after the book stores ware closed, and the next day, of course, was a workless Sunday. They were scheduled to depart on a 10 a.m. train Monday. Mr. Mackall hurried through breakfast and at 9 o'clock left his brother for a hasty search of the city. Just as the train was about to pull out Mr. Mackall arrived with his arms full of old books,

"Did you get what you were after?" his brother asked, as he hauled the collector and his burden aboard the already moving train.

Mr. Mackall replied that he wasn't sure. When he found a seat he started to look through one of his new purchases -- a collection of songs from old English plays. In the middle of it he came upon the words which moved Goethe to write “The Cheerful Traveler.”

Mr. Mackall carried on a world-wide correspondence with bibliophiles and edited a weekly column for "Books," but he detested the confining work. The result was that he frequently would jot down a few illuminating discoveries in a letter to some far away scholar, who would proceed to write a paper on the subject, crediting Mr. Mackall only with an insignificant footnote.

Among the great libraries to which Mr, Mackall gave books most liberally were those of the Century Club, Grolier Club and the Tudor and Stewart Library at Johns Hopkins, a memorial to Revere Osler, Sir William's son, who was killed in the World War.

Mr, Mackall was born in Baltimore January 29, 1879, the son of Leonard Covington and Louisa Frederika Lawton Mackall. He was graduated from Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 1896 with an extraordinary scholastic record. After receiving an A.B. degree from Johns Hopkins in 1900 Mr. Mackall attended Harvard Law School for two years. While at Cambridge he met the Charles Eliot Norton who turned his interest from torts to literature.

After two years more at the University of Berlin, Mr, Mackall became a fellow at John Hopkins in 1906 and then returned to Europe to study at the University of Jena. He became editor of the Notes for Bibliophiles in the first number of “Books” on September 21, 1924, and continued it to the time of his final illness.

MEMBER OF MANY SOCIETIES

Mr. Mackall was president of the Georgia Historical Society and a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the American Historical Association, the Virginia Historical Society, the History of Science Society, the American Association of the History of Medicine, the Modern Language Association of America, the Bibliographical Society of England, Phi Beta Kappa, and Alpha Delta Phi. His clubs were the Century, Coffee House and Grolier in New York; the Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore, and the Oglethorpe, in Savannah. He was the editor of many books dealing particularly with the lives and work of Dr. Osler and Goethe.

Mr. Mackall never married. Surviving are a brother, A. Lawton Mackall, writer, of Staten Island, and a sister, Mrs. Cari Melchers, of Falmouth, Va., widow of the painter. Mr. Mackall had passed much time with her since the death of his mother a few years ago.

Alexander Lawton MACKALL

MACKALL (Alexander) Lawton, writer, lecturer; b. Chestnut Hill, Pa., May 23, 1888: s. Leonard Covington and Louisa Frederika (Lawton) M; student Sheffield Scientific Sch. (Yale) 1 yr.; B.A. Yale, 1910, MA. 1911; m. Virginia Woods, Mar 15, 1913; I son, Robert Lawton (dec.); m 2nd Ruth Dexter MacMillan, Apr. 22, 1926. Fellow in English, Yale, 1910-11; mem editorial staff Century Meg. 1912, later staff of Vanity Fair, and asst. editor with G. Schirmer, Inc, music pubs.; mmg. editor "Judge" also dramatic editor Leslie's until 1920; editorial dir. New Fiction Pub. Corp., 1920-23 Mem. Bd. of Higher Edn. of N.Y. City; mem administrative corn. Brooklyn Coll., Queens Coll. Mem Authors' League America; corr. mem. Portuguese Archaeol. Soc. Decorated Officer Order of Christ (Portuguese). Clubs: Players, Dutch Treat. Author: Scrambled Eggs, 1920; Bizarre, 1923; Poodle Oodle of Doodle Farm (with Ruth Mackall); Portugal for Two, 1931; The Restaurateur's Handbook (with Charles A. Faissole), 1938. Contbr essays, stories, articles to newspapers and mags. Address: 25 Belair Road, Rosebank, Staten Island, N.Y.